A Woman's Mood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFGFG HFHFIJIJ ABABKLKL MNMNEOEO FPFPQBQB ERESTKTK| I think to night I could bear it all | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Even the arrow that cleft the core | B |
| Could I wait again for your swift footfall | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And your sunny face coming in at the door | B |
| With the old frank look and the gay young smile | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the ring of the words you used to say | D |
| I could almost deem the pain worth while | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To greet you again in the olden way | D |
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| But you stand without in the dark and cold | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And I may not open the long closed door | B |
| Nor call thro' the night with the love of old | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Come into the warmth as in nights of yore | B |
| I kneel alone in the red fire glow | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And hear the wings of the wind sweep by | G |
| You are out afar in the night I know | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the sough of the wind is like a cry | G |
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| You are out afar and I wait within | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp A grave eyed woman whose pulse is slow | F |
| The flames round the red coals softly spin | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the lonely room's in a rosy glow | F |
| The firelight falls on your vacant chair | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the soft brown rug where you used to stand | J |
| Dear never again shall I see you there | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor lift my head for your seeking hand | J |
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| Yet sometimes still and in spite of all | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp I wistful look at the fastened door | B |
| And wait again for the swift footfall | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the gay young voice as in hours of yore | B |
| It still seems strange to be here alone | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With the rising sob of the wind without | L |
| The sound takes a deep insisting tone | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Where the trees are swinging their arms about | L |
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| Its moaning reaches the sheltered room | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And thrills my heart with a sense of pain | N |
| I walk to the window and pierce the gloom | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp With a yearning look that is all in vain | N |
| You are out in a night of depths that hold | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp No promise of dawning for you and me | O |
| And only a ghost from the life of old | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Has come from the world of memory | O |
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| You are out evermore God wills it so | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp But ah my spirit is yearning yet | P |
| As I kneel alone by the red fire glow | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp My eyes grow dim with the old regret | P |
| O when shall the aching throb grow still | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp The warm love life turn cold at the core | B |
| Must I be watching against my will | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For your banished face in the opening door | B |
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| It may be dear when the sequel's told | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of the story read to its bitter close | R |
| When the inner meanings of life unfold | E |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the under side of our being shows | S |
| It may be then in that truer light | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp When all our knowledge has larger grown | K |
| I may understand why you stray to night | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And I am left with the past alone | K |
Arthur Bayldon
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